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The Wild Colonial Boy - Walnut McSpadden staple fret 3 string
This evening I finally finished the project McSpadden I've been working on - and there was just enough light left outside to get a photo In...
@Robin Clark started 11 years ago - replies: 29
Can you help me find my keys?
I was lucky enough to join a session with a band called The Whiskey Dogs recentlyWhen I asked about the key in which a number of tracks on their CD...
@Steve Battarbee started 11 years ago - replies: 3
Why Homer Ledford Placed his Frets where he did (And he was Right!!!!)
I got an unfinishedMcSpadden dulcimer body from Jim Woods last year as I wanted to build one up with wooden pegs and staple frets. Finally this...
@Robin Clark started 11 years ago - replies: 70
Note-bending noter technique
I posted this as a blog. Another member suggested it might be seen more as a discussion. Since it involves noter technique, I figured this would...
@Jud Barry started 11 years ago - replies: 6
Favorite set- up and tuning for key of Bm?
Friends,I've got a Bm tune I want to learn yet have never played out of this key. What's your favorite set- up and tuning for Bm tunes?An...
@Robin Thompson started 11 years ago - replies: 16
TUNINGS FOR SESSIONS
I have read Robin Clark's really helpful blog on tunings but I am still not sure what tuning I will need to be in if for example I wanted to play...
@Steve Battarbee started 11 years ago - replies: 2
Using a feather to strum
A couple years ago a workshop presenter showed us how to strip a turkeyfeather and use its spine to strum. I'm lost on how the technique actually...
@Jean Van Erem started 11 years ago - replies: 6
New project finished - a `Swedish' hommel
After being much inspired by Peter W.'s versions of a Praetorius 1620 illustration of the German Scheitholt in Sintagma Musicum I thought I'd have...
@John Tose started 11 years ago - replies: 10
Jethro Amburgy and Clifford Glen
Look what the postman brought today - A Jethro Amburgey and a Clifford Glen, both from the 60s. They are in playable condition and just needed...
@Robin Clark started 11 years ago - replies: 12
Old-Style "Picks" for Noter Playing
The attached "picks" came with a pair of Amburgey dulcimers from the 60s and I assume they were homemade specifically to play them. They're all...
@Geoff Black started 11 years ago - replies: 6
Relationship Among String Height, Intonation and "Zing"
In noter/drone playing, I'm curious about the effect of string height or action. I've heard here and other places that generally higher action...
@Parker Buckley started 12 years ago - replies: 34
gettin in the groove
Everyone's heard that saying huh?....ya know.....musicians concentrate so much on the music at hand that they "get in the groove"...Well sir....I...
@Randy Adams started 16 years ago - replies: 6
Spotted Pony on My Eli Presnell Reproduction
Just wanted to add a sound file of the Eli Presnell reproduction Irecently built. It sounds better than I can play but here it is wartz and all ....
@Kevin Messenger started 12 years ago - replies: 4
Nathan Hicks playing "Pretty Polly" in 1939 - Alternative pre-revival tuning?
Nathan Hicks recorded a version of Pretty Polly with dulcimer accompaniment in 1939. Pretty Polly's a minor-key song, right? I've never heard a...
@Flint Hill started 14 years ago - replies: 18
Celebrate Strumming
I realised a few weeks ago that I had been happily(some might say obsessively) strumming for 6 months so I thought I would celebrate this mini...
@Steve Battarbee started 12 years ago - replies: 21
Bonaparte Crossing the Rocky Mountains - A',A,d tuning - Reed Noter and Leather Pick
Here is "Bonaparte Crossing the Rocky Mountains". I heard the tune played on banjo by Bob Carlin earlier this week and went searching for...
@Robin Clark started 13 years ago - replies: 23
Shove the Pig's Foot - Galax dulcimer and Fiddle
We had a few friends over for dinner tonight and after a good few bottles of wine were consumedthe instruments came out I've done a lot of...
@Robin Clark started 12 years ago - replies: 14
Popsicle stick
Recently I have become somewhat serious about playing noter/drone style. Over the past year I have collected a few noters, received in the bags of...
@Terry Wilson started 12 years ago - replies: 27
The Blackest Crow - Ed Thomas Replica - D,A,A - Thumb Strum
I've been working on the 'thumb strum' as shown in Jean Ritchie's 'The Dulcimer Book' and also refered to by John Mawhee,and felt that 'The...
@Robin Clark started 13 years ago - replies: 9